Telegram-herald., 1887-11-27
THE PANAMA CANAL
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1Es Tourist 0nes iand aad hs - seen dlaea-
chaafe.L The atf aeeus - tc fgil 4 festl-
ienoe. and r Cslosna = sad ~ have kad
..3gsaty distinct sf.nks / am sure Cclan
k-s - ths iszst Ihres times As many. In fzeE
Il s wosuier that tie za4b.lants have not
a. a thsla sssTtaai ap sases. Tbs front stFest
las pla8xs.f over sistess zl1 uuier which tie
waller stands 4zd p1rrelies after . rainfall
The oack streets II the eir7 are msd holes,
add zreea sum - taer principal oecorar
ton. The majority ~ t1o houses ara onllt
upon sJiaks, aifh = BED ol sseafaIng mud ce-
neath - adj - thslF sanltaTy advantages.
Le1srally tLe Panama Railroad company
run t~o funeral trains Galiy oul % TIE ceni-
stery a. Monksy Hin, aad carry l0Cs u
''oeaiheaas4
The funeral ceremonies ars conducted on =
mnst econoaalesl pa. A pCor man dies "a
the strssG A box Is broa.slat and as - tUu-
bied into 10 AID ~hiried away - the place q
sepalture. Ga arrival the body Is pitched
into hole Wasn there are four or ave
bodies In this hole it IS eiassd up The boxes
are, however. always brgught back tor fur
ther use. There Is ~ hospital OF all for the
sick and destitute. Dor Tie sicz man there .
40 ald, Tor the dead no religious services II
y aid that Al are not dead Who are thrown
into these pitt. This Is iEnIlateriAl OF course
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tn upon thsm There are hospitals OF course,
n Colon, both American and French. the
latter under the auspices of the canal com
pany. whose bead = Il de Lszzsps l have
personally given the French hospital trial
OF nezrly a year, add cannot recommend IL
a FIRST class hotel Poor eOsYee and tough
beef are not, Ia my estimation, the most
oourishing food for an Invalid These boa
pitais are undar tho control OF my discin-
guishesi frsend, a. de Lesseps, but be never
boards Al them when he chances u be IN
Colon The Sisters OF Charity women
and sfaa u sotne educated doctors Of
French extraction have ths management OF
Affairs Tho principal medicines used are
compound c4tAaFtic pills and quiaine, varied
occasionally by a ay blister or an enema
Tbs treatment - an cFainertiy successful
ons, as iA evidenced By the coffins going out
ssery day In the hospitals, as ia everything
sise. the French have the preference, except
IN graveyard privileges. They gut chicken,
etc, when an American or Englishman Is
gwen tough beef-the meat cut out between
the horns of bulIocks whose ancestry dates
back beyond the reign OF William the Con
gueror, who himself Is old enough 70 DO his
avn grandfather.
LENGTH WIEN COMPLETED.
The Panama canal, or rather The Inter
eceaniqpe" win Be, when completed. about
dfty-ive miles long So FAR about eighteen
miles have been drcdged out on the Chagres.
and portion OF the mountain at Culebra has
been blasted out This IS all the work OF con
tractors not OF the French The American
Dredging company have done their work
uObly. while the French dred3es have lain
Idle and ruSted along the shores of the
Chagres. Tee chief aim Of French enploye
seems % be 70 drink absinthe, cognac and
elaret, and wear = cork bat and top boots.
They are extremely elannish, and view Amer
icans as an inferior raca OF animals. The
canal company purpose building a darn
Across between two mountains near Gan,boa.
This they calculate VIII give them a lake OF
some marvellous capacity, so II the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans ever dry up they can turn
on faucet and til tho canal without soiling
their kid gloves This is all very fine in the
ory Ode Icxcps1 but tho Chagrcs river rises
Sometimes twenty feet in twenty four
hours. srd should 10 take a notion 20 do so
after this mythical lake Is completed, it would
soon show that Ganlhoa was not worth a dam
Noprofanity intended II. de Iesseps is an i'm
aginative man, he Is a man OK great ides-s,
but De did not look before hs leaped. Judg-
ing oy present prospects the canal may be
completed BY the year 1878. when the second
centennial of this grand republic viii be cele-
brsted Supposing, for example only, that
the canal could re completed by the French
company IN ten years, investor in is
bonds would % q centenarian before he re-
ceived decent return oa his investment, pro-
vided he was n years q age today. By
cooking up favorable reports On Gas stove
the French manaGement have bagged NH
lions ~ dollars, but the game is nearly
played out
NJ de- Iesseps has built a town on a negro
graveyard at Colon. which he calls Cristoval
Colon He has taken possession Of the bronze
statue q Christopher Columbus which was
presented by Empress Eugene, Of France, TO
Coleu itself as being Cne Of the first places
visited IN the ner world By the great dis
covsrer Tbs he has erected ia front of bis
palace, facing scaward, SO Gs ~ welcome him
when he socs a. TO cross the waters. Here
at Christovsl Colon. are collected his faith
f1i satellites. Most of sheIn are like the
lilies as they grow. they neither toll, nor dc
they spin yet they uso up lots of brandy
vermoush and gin AS an old resident ou
the fSthmns of Panama, and locker on R'
All the doings 0f these called cana coa1pany
I do not hesitate 70 stignatize t,ie ing it.
self. 80 far. as \ deceit and \ snare. Doubt
less tho company hope 70 complete the cana
ss some future day by aid q the rainy
sesscns.- but that VIII take some centuries
What Is required is cool American brains
Arnerican energy, American capital and ths
thing VII b s1ccsSs. a thing of today. not
a. it premises now, 60 BE- regarded in years
% como ss = failure ard fossil enterprise -
Colon Cor. New Orlesns Times Democrat